Meteorologists are remarking on the weather with almost tl.e same
interest as the public, which, if elderly, or inclined to bronchitis, or poor, is dying of it. There has been no severe cold this winter, no strong ice, and only one severe fall of snow ; but we remember within the quarter of a century but two winters equally trying, those of 1860 and 1880. No such February has been known for thirty years, the thermometer seldom rising to 40 deg. Fahrenheit, while the ground was frozen on every night but two. The temperature has been 8 deg. below the average, and much of the want of employment has been due to this cause. The protracted winter is telling on the health of the old, and we note a distinct i,;crease in the general depres- sion of spirits. The glow, society has been unasnal, and though due mainly to,iklke Irish, is partly owing to the ;lark, cold; cheerlessness of th?, wer4ther.
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